Hacking [RELEASE] Button Swap plugin for taiHEN

Scorp · Dec 20, 2016

I was always annoyed by the fact that my favorite button layout does not change in japanese games (yes, that X/O for confirm). And games does not even bother about registry changes - they have it pre-built inside and does not care. Also I am sure there exist lot of people, who like O to confirm and just got annoyed with western style layout when playing their games.

And of course all this have to be working per game, as you do not want to have all your games with inverted controls, so globally changing the layout in registry is not an option.

So I wrote this little plugin for taiHEN, which solve the problem. Btw, if you find a game or app. which refuses to change layout - let me know, I will take a look.

Installation:

Put "buttonswap.suprx" in 'tai' folder in the root of your Vita.

Change config.txt in that directory to load plugin for title of your choice by adding new lines like below:

Code:

# titleid for your game (this one is for Root//Letter for example)
*PCSB01019
ux0:tai/buttonswap.suprx

After that just run the game and your buttons should be swapped (this would work only for this game).

Get recent version here: https://github.com/Scorpeg/Button-Swap/releases

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laharl22 · Dec 20, 2016

Thank you

Deleted User · Dec 20, 2016

Amazing plugin! Good to see more taiHEN projects like these are emerging

Vitaminer · Dec 20, 2016

Any ways I can make X to confirm, triangle to cancel?

Scorp · Dec 20, 2016

Vitaminer said:
Any ways I can make X to confirm, triangle to cancel?

Plugin does swapping X and O, but if you want - you can do a custom remap inside invertButtons function.

Vitaminer · Dec 21, 2016

Scorp said:
Plugin does swapping X and O, but if you want - you can do a custom remap inside invertButtons function.

Thanks for this plugin, I don't know if it is just me, but if I play a game that is originated from US or EUR, I want X to be confirm and triangle to cancel, but if I play a game(English) that is originated from JPN, I want O to confirm and X to cancel

Scorp · Dec 21, 2016

Vitaminer said:
Thanks for this plugin, I don't know if it is just me, but if I play a game that is originated from US or EUR, I want X to be confirm and triangle to cancel, but if I play a game(English) that is originated from JPN, I want O to confirm and X to cancel

That's really weird choice, as basically most US/EU games have O to cancel. Try button remap in Vita settings, that's the closest thing I can think of.

ayanekochan · Dec 21, 2016

Does this also change the buttons in game visually? Example is world of final fantasy us version. If I swap O and X does this also swap the visual menu for "O to attack" and "X to defend" etc?

Scorp · Dec 21, 2016

ayanekochan said:
Does this also change the buttons in game visually? Example is world of final fantasy us version. If I swap O and X does this also swap the visual menu for "O to attack" and "X to defend" etc?

Of course not. It does what I told in first post and nothing else.

By your logic plugin should magically search in all the images (which could encrypted/packed/etc.), auto-changing images (how it would ever find out which is button and which is not? idk, some AI would be implemented it seems) and all textes (which also could be encrypted/packed/etc.) buttons O to X?

If you could have such a magic plugin, all translations hacks would be a breeze

Unfortunately, that's a thing you can see in science fiction, not in a plugin for Vita.

bosshunter · Dec 23, 2016

Scorp said:
Plugin does swapping X and O, but if you want - you can do a custom remap inside invertButtons function.

Could you elaborate on this?

I'm currently trying to make something like Macrofire (the good old PSP key remap plugin), but I'm having a hard time figuring out the custom remap.

Scorp · Dec 23, 2016

bosshunter said:
Could you elaborate on this?

I'm currently trying to make something like Macrofire (the good old PSP key remap plugin), but I'm having a hard time figuring out the custom remap.

It is not really hard to do such a config, but it result in two different configs - like first you have to add your game in tai/config.txt to make plugin activated and then you would need to add config like:

[PCSG22345]
Cross = Triangle
Square = Cross

So this would be not a button swap, but a different tool. And not very user-friendly to have two different configs to set. Anyway, I will keep it in mind, maybe will code later.

Gootah · Dec 23, 2016

I like where this is going....

Would it be possible to find out what dictates button mappings on a system level and swap that when certain apps are run? Jap games seem to not only swap keys for the game, but it's also swapped for system items that are called by the game (e.g. save menu).

In retrospect I should have tested the app before asking this...it might already be accounted for...

Scorp · Dec 23, 2016

Gootah said:
I like where this is going....

Would it be possible to find out what dictates button mappings on a system level and swap that when certain apps are run? Jap games seem to not only swap keys for the game, but it's also swapped for system items that are called by the game (e.g. save menu).

In retrospect I should have tested the app before asking this...it might already be accounted for...

You're missing the point. Tool is not only used to swap it for japanese games, it could be also used to do exact opposite - for people who like asian layout to switch it only for titles they play in english (and there are lot of them, believe me, I got at least 6 responses from different people, who use O/X layout). Also I do not know the 100% working way to find out, what layout game/app uses.

No, japanese games does not affect real system save. So if save is not custom - buttons in it would be set according to system (so you will get in japanese your layout). This is actually one of the problems why I made plugin - as it was very distraction to have in whole game O to confirm and only in save - X to confirm, I was occasionally going back and forth because of that.

Gootah · Dec 23, 2016

Scorp said:
You're missing the point. Tool is not only used to swap it for japanese games, it could be also used to do exact opposite - for people who like asian layout to switch it only for titles they play in english (and there are lot of them, believe me, I got at least 6 responses from different people, who use O/X layout). Also I do not know the 100% working way to find out, what layout game/app uses.

No, japanese games does not affect real system save. So if save is not custom - buttons in it would be set according to system (so you will get in japanese your layout). This is actually one of the problems why I made plugin - as it was very distraction to have in whole game O to confirm and only in save - X to confirm, I was occasionally going back and forth because of that.

Didn't miss the point of the tool, I understand that it is a remapper, just was more interested in X/O of course. I'll test today. Thanks a lot for the work!

Scorp · Dec 23, 2016

Gootah said:
Didn't miss the point of the tool, I understand that it is a remapper, just was more interested in X/O of course. I'll test today. Thanks a lot for the work!

It is not a remapper. It is just switch X with O and vice versa for the app you set in config. Nothing more, nothing else.

Gootah · Dec 23, 2016

Scorp said:
It is not a remapper. It is just switch X with O and vice versa for the app you set in config. Nothing more, nothing else.

Ah OK, my bad. I stated it was for Jap games because that's what I would use it for. It will swap them not matter what region, I got that. Didn't meat to make it seem like the plugin was limited to JAP games.

kftX · Dec 23, 2016

Scorp said:
I was always annoyed by the fact that my favorite button layout does not change in japanese games (yes, that X/O for confirm). And games does not even bother about registry changes - they have it pre-built inside and does not care. Also I am sure there exist lot of people, who like O to confirm and just got annoyed with western style layout when playing their games.

And of course all this have to be working per game, as you do not want to have all your games with inverted controls, so globally changing the layout in registry is not an option.

So I wrote this little plugin for taiHEN, which solve the problem. Btw, if you find a game or app. which refuses to change layout - let me know, I will take a look.

Installation:

Put "buttonswap.suprx" in 'tai' folder in the root of your Vita.

Change config.txt in that directory to load plugin for title of your choice by adding new lines like below:

Code:

# titleid for your game (this one is for Root//Letter for example) *PCSB01019 ux0:tai/buttonswap.suprx

After that just run the game and your buttons should be swapped (this would work only for this game).

Get recent version here: https://github.com/Scorpeg/Button-Swap/releases

.

Thanks for the great plugin, I wanted one of these for a while. No more getting the buttons wrong in translated games!

Scorp · Dec 24, 2016

xym814 said:
here is some enum values from PSP2 SDK:

PSP2_CTRL_CIRCLE = 0x002000, //!< Circle button.
PSP2_CTRL_CROSS = 0x004000, //!< Cross button.

Explain, why you are telling this to me. Do you think I do not know how to patch eboot? You ever checked what plugin does? As it does same thing, just without need to patch each and every eboot.bin on the planet.

Hint: Try to patch eboot for Root//Letter using your method and fail miserabily.

pratamaaudi · Jan 13, 2017

Is it possible to swap d-pad with analog ?

Vitaminer · Jan 16, 2017

Scorp said:
That's really weird choice, as basically most US/EU games have O to cancel. Try button remap in Vita settings, that's the closest thing I can think of.

Well I play a lot of suikoden back in the days when I had the PS2, it's got X to confirm and triangle to cancel, I guess the suikoden series have made me to get used to this control scheme.

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